Top 1200 Unjust War Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

You don't need a blanket of can't do this, that's illegal, that's unfair, that's unjust, all of these can'ts, all these won'ts never helped anybody.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

'Kanche' is not primarily a war film: it is a lovely story set against a war backdrop.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

My dad served in World War II and died on active duty after the war.

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First World War wasn't fought for that reason. The Second World War wasn't fought for that reason. Your entire country and way of life could be overtaken.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.